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doping
Definition of doping
: the use of a substance (such as an anabolic steroid or erythropoietin) or technique (such as blood doping) to illegally improve athletic performance
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increased efforts to detect doping at the Olympic Games
Recent Examples of doping from the Web
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The story is two years old, relied heavily on anecdotal evidence and hasn't resulted in doping sanctions against Salazar or the Oregon Project.
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A day like this would have been unthinkable just a few years ago when German TV stopped broadcasting the Tour because of a series of doping scandals.
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The doping laboratory was paid for by the federal government and cost 163.7 million reals ($50 million).
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Sharapova came back to the tennis tour in April after a 15-month doping ban but with her ranking not yet good enough to make the main draw needed a wildcard to enter the ongoing French Open.
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Sochi spent $51 billion and swapped out dirty urine samples of Russian athletes through a hole in the wall of the doping lab.
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With Serena Williams (pregnant), Maria Sharapova (denied a wild card after a doping suspension) and Victoria Azarenka (about to come back after having a baby) all absent, No.
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Six track athletes hit with doping bans after Olympic retests.
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Weightlifting's longstanding doping problem was shown with 49 of the 111 positive tests, most involving steroids, in reanalysis of samples from the 2008 Beijing Olympics and 2012 London Olympics.
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First Known Use of doping
1900
DOPING Defined for English Language Learners
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Definition of doping for English Language Learners
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: the illegal use of a drug (such as a steroid) to improve an athlete's performance
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playMedical Definition of doping
: the use of a substance (such as an anabolic steroid or erythropoietin) or technique (such as blood doping) to improve athletic performance and that is typically banned in competitive sports … nearly two dozen athletes … have been banned from the Olympics in the last two weeks for doping violations.—Philip Hersh, The Chicago Tribune, 8 Aug. 2008
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